Australia's people and patterns of work

Australia, 1991

Film
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Episode number 2 of Series “Australia at work”.
A four part series examining Australians’ attitudes to work and to changes in the Australian workplace. The first part of this episode examines the history of industry and labour in Australia, as well as looking at the current diversity of occupations and work throughout the country. Australians involved in unpaid labour are interviewed, particularly women working in domestic labour. The second half of the video examines the difficulties and discrimination encountered by women, migrants, Aborigines and the disabled in the labour market.

Credits

co-producer

Greg Shepherd

Mervyn Dober

production company

Focus Ausio-Visual Services

Appleseed Productions

Duration

01:00:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1991

Appears in

Australia at work

Group of items

Australia at work

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303566

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Discrimination in employment

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor and laboring classes - Australia

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Housewives

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Australia

History → History

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan

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